Rural Organizing
Contributed by expert organizer (and all around fun person) Roy Mitchell RURAL ORGANIZING is DIFFERENT I had an idea. I’ve organized...
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Shauna Rae
- Jun 11
- 4 min
Drag Storytime: Why are the Religious Right and the Freedom Fighters Working Together?
Yesterday, I had a bird's eye view of a Drag Storytime protest at a rural southwestern Ontario library. Let me start by saying, my...
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Shauna Rae
- Apr 21
- 3 min
CBC, Twitter and local news
Pierre Poilievre, the leader of the federal Conservative Party, asked Twitter to add a ‘government-funded media’ label to the CBC’s...
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Shauna Rae
- Mar 18
- 4 min
For the love of community storytelling
The photo above is a postcard I bought a few summers back at a local museum. I wanted a photo of the SS Noronic to put on my bulletin...
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Shauna Rae
- Jan 10
- 3 min
2023 Challenges
This has been a tough year. It's my first year of entrepreneurship, and I have been exhilarated and joyous and yet heartbroken and...
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Shauna Rae
- Jun 21, 2022
- 2 min
What are we proud of?
Today is Canada's National Indigenous Peoples Day. This is a photo of a post on the corner of our property, right by the road, in...
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Shauna Rae
- Jun 17, 2022
- 16 min
Power by Zeleen Virani
“Picture it: Sicily, 1922…Just joking! Although, at the ripe age of 42 I feel like the fifth Golden Girl that never made the audition. ...
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Shauna Rae
- Jun 14, 2022
- 2 min
Does anyone care about rural?
I had the honour last week of being asked to speak about the work I've been doing with woman-identifying, non-binary and queer...
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Shauna Rae
- May 30, 2022
- 4 min
#BroadcastingMeToo
***A Trigger Warning: Slang mention of oral sex, sexual innuendo and mild cursing*** I want to start by saying there are so many layers...
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Shauna Rae
- May 24, 2022
- 3 min
What does freedom mean in Canada?
I've been thinking a lot about freedom and what that means in different parts of Canada, to different groups of people. I have been...
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Shauna Rae
- May 2, 2022
- 2 min
What's next?
Last week, with the help of the Canadian Women's Chamber of Commerce (CanWCC), I hosted our first virtual town hall. Sixty-eight folks...
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Shauna Rae
- Mar 1, 2022
- 2 min
Are We Suffering from Information Poverty in Rural Canada?
Information is so readily accessible in today’s society. I age myself by saying that when I was doing a school project, I’d have to go to...
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Shauna Rae
- Feb 21, 2022
- 5 min
The protest in Ottawa is over. Now what?
The trucks in Ottawa have been impounded and protesters forced to leave. The other protests, in various other parts of the country have...
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Shauna Rae
- Feb 14, 2022
- 2 min
Rural Communities and the News
I listened to an interesting conversation last night on a Twitter Space about mainstream media in Canada.(I would describe Twitter Spaces...
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Shauna Rae
- Feb 8, 2022
- 2 min
Am I 'Chicken Little'?
The trucker protest has spread like wild fire. As it drags on, more Canadian cities were targeted by protestors, demanding an end to...
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Shauna Rae
- Feb 1, 2022
- 2 min
What will the truckers do?
"We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on the mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and...
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Shauna Rae
- Jan 24, 2022
- 3 min
Should I make money doing what I do?
I started to question if I was really on the right path last week. An anti-racism Instagram account posted that white people shouldn't be...
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Shauna Rae
- Jan 17, 2022
- 3 min
The easy thing to do is give up.
WARNING: Cursing I recognize myself as a white woman of privilege and that my experience is not the experience of everyone. This week has...
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Shauna Rae
- Jan 10, 2022
- 2 min
"And you may say to yourself, 'My God! What have I done?'"~ Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
I likely should have done it 10 years ago. Anyone that's worked with me would be shocked it took me this long. I've settled into...
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